New_York_and_Long_Island_Traction_Corporation

New York and Long Island Traction Company

New York and Long Island Traction Company

Former New York City street railway company

For the predecessor to the Brooklyn subways, see Long Island Traction Company.

The New York and Long Island Traction Company was a street railway company in Queens and Nassau County, New York, United States.[1] It was partially owned by a holding company for the Long Island Rail Road and partially by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.[2][3] The company operated from New York City east to Freeport,[1] Hempstead,[1] and Mineola.[4]

Lines

The railroad had two main lines.

Mineola Line

The Mineola Line (now the Nassau Inter-County Express n24 bus route) spanned from Queens Village to Mineola (in Nassau County) along Jamaica Avenue.

Brooklyn-Freeport Line

The Brooklyn-Freeport Line spanned from Brooklyn to Freeport (also in Nassau County) and ran mostly along Rockaway Boulevard, North Conduit Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Merrick Road. The 17-mile (27 km) route[5] was mostly replaced by the Q7 and Q85 (operated by MTA Regional Bus Operations) and n4 (operated by Nassau Inter-County Express).

References

  1. [1]
    Bleyer, Bill. "Freeport: Action on the Nautical Mile". Newsday. Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  2. [2]
    "Belmont and Peters Buy Queens Trolleys". The New York Times. June 21, 1905. p. 14. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  3. [3]
    "Company Profile". Jamaica Buses, Inc. Archived from the original on 2006-01-25.
  4. [4]
    Meyers, Stephen L. (2006). Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island. Images of Rail. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-4526-0.
  5. [5]
    Transit Journal (Volume 24 ed.). 1904. p. 932. Retrieved 26 February 2017.


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